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Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis

by: Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887

Publication date: 1886

Topics: Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887, Journalists

Publisher: Philadelphia ; Chicago ; Kansas City : Hubbard Bros.

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

Item Size: 1.7G

Edition statement from spine and cover, p. [1]

Vol. 2 includes index

"Volume 1 contains 544 pages; volume 2 contains 544 pages; this index, covering both volumes, properly pages from the sum of the two, viz.: 1088, so commencing on 1089"--Vol. 2, p. 1089

"Illustrating the wit, humor, genius, eccentricities, jealousies, ambitions and intrigues of the brilliant statesmen, ladies, officers, diplomats, lobbyists and other noted celebrities of the world that gather at the centre of the nation; describing imposing inauguration ceremonies, gala day festivities, army reviews, &c., &c., &c."

With: Biographical sketch of Ben: Perley Poore / contributed by his wife

Bound in cloth

"Balch Bros. & Graham, Boston; Jas. Morris & Co., Cincinnati; A.L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco."

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